Ranking the BEST Starter in Every Pokémon Game!

Hi, I'm ranked 12th and I think Charmander is the

best

starter

. Well, you're wrong. Bulbasaur fits the Kanto gym lineup much better, okay, but don't forget that Blastoise has the

best

move diversity with moves like surf, earthquake, ice beam. and body blows plus the Charizards skins I like the best Hi, my name is Patrick and I'm sick and tired of the Pokémon community arguing about which

starter

Pokémon in each

game

is the best. So today we are going to settle. this, once and for all, using facts and logic, this is the best starter in all pokemon

game

s including scarlet and violet, now we will go in chronological order starting with pokemon red and blue, now the first major trainer that any starter You will find in this game is Brock from the first gem and don't think for a second that this video won't be made without using a real formula.

Oh no, we will use a very logical and well thought out point system to determine which is the best. starter in each game and since the first game gems depend more on your starter they carry a little more weight, so now there are more points at stake in the first gyms, as

every

one knows, at this point, Bulbasaur and Squirtle destroy Brock and therefore he would get all the points as a starter in this gym and it's really here in Charmander versus Brock where I think the community is already starting to divide. Most look at Charmander and say oh fire versus Rock bad, very, very bad, but why Brock. only has normal type moves, a decent level Charmander can easily Ember his way through Geodude and maybe even an Onyx if you play smart, so while Charmander isn't a great choice for this fight, he's also not a bad Pokémon to use and again I need to reiterate. that's a fact, we went through all the pokemon games for this video, there are a few games multiple times where charmander really does well against brock, next up is water type misty and starmie is a really strong pokemon at this point in the game .

Bulbasaur again wins all available. points with water resistance, while Squirtle brings some benefit to this fight as he at least resists water, as for Charmander, this is a case where people correctly evaluate how useful he is, with Charmander being very bad. is not useful in this fight and actually use it. makes your time harder, so you lose points for this fight. I think we all know the weight it has on you to have a bad starter at the beginning of a game because you have no options to replace him, so at the beginning of the game not only does a bad start not help you, but it actually hurts you.

Now he goes searching because he learns that TM digs. Charmeleon is really awesome for this fight as he can shoot

every

thing, but his Raichu Wartortle also works well, but it is also weak at attacking Pikachu. and Raichu, so in this case it is still a buff, so points can be awarded, but it is certainly not a clean sweep and lastly, although Bulbasaur is not strong for his team, he can deal neutral damage and resist electric moves , so it's pretty good now. is Erica's grass team and this is another easy mistake: you see grass, you see fire, you think, oh, Charmander is awesome, the right type advantage isn't the only thing in Pokémon and this is an area where I think a lot of the community is wrong.

Erica has fully evolved Pokémon and Charmeleon only has Ember up to level 46. Very good, but again she doesn't have all the points, now her Razor Leaf is completely dunked on Squirtle and Bulbasaur actually does very well here due to a glitch in AI mechanics. They see the type of grass and think poisonous dust would score. be super effective, so they just spam you as you move towards a fairly easy sweep, so in a strange twist of fate, Charmeleon and Ivysaur actually do equally well in these fights, now from here we have Koga without levitate, your Pokémon are not rivals.

Squirtle and Charmander's 100 base power is so easy to sweep away and the now Venusaur, despite being a grass type, is still capable of throwing some critical razor blades for at least a marginal benefit as you progress through the Later game, your starter becomes much less important, so halfway through. In the game, even if your Pokémon isn't good for a matchup, you won't lose fights because it's not that crucial, but it's worth noting that Venusaur, as a poison-type, is devastated by Sabrina. The rather bulky Blastoise can do very well in this fight while prone. some high damage body hits but the surprise winner here and I think a lot of people overlook it, this is Charizard, well he doesn't have flamethrower, the overlooked slash is a guaranteed critical hit move, he doesn't normally have 70 damage, this means it has 140 base power and slashes. through all the defense boosts like reflect and with great speed, he is able to sweep Sabrina very consistently now, like in our last two gyms, Charizard Rex Blaine and Giovanni with dig Venus wart, meanwhile fight with Blaine and destroys Giovanni and Blastoise, additional remains of both and now, finally.

We now have the Elite Four for this section of our

ranking

system. We made it so that points are again available for both losses and wins here. The reason is that if you bring a bad start to Elite 4, you are giving up a spot. which could otherwise have been used on a better Pokémon, so having a really good starter in Elite 4 like at the beginning of the game is very important, which is why starting Venusaur is surprisingly useful against the ice water user Lorelei, as it Brutus is evil and can eliminate most of Bruno's. The fighting team performs horribly against Agatha and due to the eye mechanic that sees agility as super effective as a psychic move against Venusaur's poison, he is able to sweep away Lance's dragons without being touched and finally in champion fight, Venusaur performs worse than the trio that your rival, Pidgeot, has.

Alakazam and Charizard direct you, although he can only really help against Rhydon. Charizard then turns neutral towards Lorelei and once again sweeps the terrible Bruno with an earthquake, he can also sweep Agatha and provide decent slashing damage against dragons and although he is better than Venusaur, he still only does so. decent against your opponent who can double-shot four of his team and isn't capable of shooting anything but Blastoise, or should I say Shad's stories actually perform better on Elite Four, resists and gets damage done neutral against Lorelei. not only does she sweep Bruno, but Agatha makes quick work of Lance with Surf and Ice Beam and in the champion fight she can beat Pidgeot in Alakazam and Arcanine easily with Gyarados being a moment, so with all that information covered, where do we meet?

People will say that Bulbasaur is the best starter because it has a good start, a lot of people say that Charmander is terrible because it has a bad start and although these two Pokémon fluctuate quite a bit throughout the game, I firmly believe and believe that the data holds up. Well, Blastoise is the best gen 1 starter, it doesn't start as strong as Venusaur, but the Squirtle line has an amazing move pool and performs more consistently throughout the game. The only drawback and this is something we consider is that there are other water types and even Pokémon like Nidoking that can fill the same role, so that takes away from it a bit, but there is still a reason why Blastoise is the only starter Pokémon that can be used for speedrunning - it's consistent and based on the best starter Pokémon for Gen 1.

Now, since we won't be looking at that and since there are no Pokémon differences between gold, silver, and Crystal, let's take a look at these three games below in this You probably have a decent idea of ​​a

ranking

system, so to save everyone a little time, this process will speed up as the video goes on, so first up is Chikorita and, as expected, she does absolutely terrible things and is devastated. the first two gyms that are flying and Bug then turns neutral to the third gym and then can't do much to touch the fourth gym since it is made up of nothing but the poisonous and ghastly family, he sees his first super effective hit against the fighter Chuck.

Poliwrath before not being able to make a single dent in Jasmine's steel types, also sees super effectiveness in all three Ice Pokémon prices, but it won't last long against any of the two and lastly, with the hit to the body, at least it finally has a purpose against Claire's dragons, etc. You know, in generation 1, all Pokémon ended up with a positive score, meaning they actually bring benefits to the game as a whole with our ranking system. Chikorita finishes among the eight gym leaders with minus six. It's the only Pokémon on this entire list that actually brings more harm than good anyway Cyndaquil is a different story, so it starts off a bit poorly against Faulkner's slap, but it ruins Bugsy's team, it helps marginally, but it slows down to Whitney's release and may make a decent dent in Morty's ghosts.

It is relatively neutral. Aside from fighting Chuck, but Steel-type Rex Jasmine performs surprisingly decent against Price's partial Water-types, as Typhlosion learns Thunder Punch and fights Claire's dragons. Overall, the big guy finishes the first eight with a plus 11. But just when you thought all hope was lost, he screwed up. There is a man, a water type, a cute little Toto who can save your career. It is a crocodile? and for all cement, Totodile is the best starter of Gen 2, so this Pokémon mainly learns water ice and dark moves, it has high attack and this is a game where all those moves are special, but even despite that , still the best one my man starts with.

Destroying the first three gyms with this simple move called Rage Gen 2, this move basically breaks every time you get hit, your attack increases by one stage, you only get hit, deal more damage, get hit, deal more damage, there are three gyms secured and in the bag now. By the fourth gym, this trick is starting to get old, but the game changes and becomes easy once again. They bite you, you can take a piece from Morty's ghosts. You now also have access to hitting the ice and surfing, so Chuck is quite doable. He also gains access to the dig so he can 4X blast Jasmine's Magnemite and Surfer Steelix.

Now the safe price is somewhat debatable, but the momentum returns when he ice-blasts Claire's dragons to Oblivion in total, that is, 21 points ahead of the Elite Four and ladies and gentlemen. That's not even the best part, let's first look at the performance of the other two starters in Elite Four Chikorita as a whole is garbage, can't do much for psychics, gets dropped by kogus poisons, is a little help. Bruno is then torn apart by Karen Ann Lance. Chikorita's final total score is minus 12. Typhlosion overall does much better here, devastating both Will and Koga, but then falls a bit without any major advantages over Bruno and Karen Thunder.

Fortunately, Punch keeps it as a useful threat against Lance, and it's also worth noting that Typhlosion gets bonus points for being the only viable Jodofire type, giving it 25 total hold points. Did someone say that Toto total marks first on the ice and destroys psychic types with bite? with an earthquake, waves and ice hits, it can surprisingly also ruin Koga. Thunder Punch Hitmonchan is the only risk Bruno poses, but the waves will wipe out almost all of his equipment, and again, the combination of frozen water and land is enough to quickly deal with Karen. and then never let the throttle go up so Alligator has his best fight against Lance, one shoots his three Dragon Knights with four ice hits, his Aerodactyl and Charizard also fall through the waves, it's a beautiful sight to behold, so Having an incredible early game, almost solo power with Elite Four for Alligator ends up with 37 points.

There is one redeeming feature of Meganium and I think it is the body shot. I find Magadium quite useful for defeating, say, a single Pokémon or trying to get something. paralyzed is very bulky, you can set up screens or reflect and basically just send body shots until you get the 30 para and while it is of course the worst opener, I think it's useful in most fights, it's just not a lot and it never is. In general, I think people tend to overrate Typhlosion, it's the best fire Pokémon in Johto, but it doesn't learn to throw flames until level 60.

Now, next we have the iconic Ruby Sapphire and Emerald, where the differences in the games don't do it. make a significant difference to overall performance now Trico is an interesting choice overall because there is simply so much water in hohen that it works especially well on Sapphire, but despite all this it is still surprisingly not overbearing. Torchic is an interesting choice because it is by far the best fire and fighting Pokémon in the game, but by farDespite this buff, it definitely lacks any amazing type advantages, and lastly, while the Mudkip Groundwater has great coverage, its best feature is being weak to nothing but grass in a game that doesn't have grass, so for starters , all three do it. very good against the first rock gym, Trico and Mudkip get a full five points here, while Torchic is a little worse, as it takes more training to evolve into Combusken and finally have a fighting move, plus it doesn't cause four times as much damage to geodudes. the second gym is fighting and sees generally average performances from everyone and although everyone has a purpose against Watson Mudkip or should I say Marshtomp is now performing surprisingly with immunity and super effective moves.

Flannery is the first time we've seen a huge imbalance, however, with Trico getting Burning Torchic only providing a marginal benefit and Mudkip once again reigning supreme, Combuska now takes the win against Norman and is one of the best Pokémon for this fight, but despite that, Norman is a very difficult fight, no matter who you choose, this is not a free fight. Now as for Winona, both Trico and Torchic are doing pretty poorly here, our team is all flying so fights and grass just can't hold Swampert, however at this point he can't do lightning of ice, so you can anticipate your Ace Altaria while providing great support against the rest of your team.

All the starters can super effectively hit Tate and Liza's Rock psychics, but that doesn't make them equal here, Blaziken sure does it well. but it can also be ruined by septile psychic and Swampert is much better and unfortunately Blaziken doesn't fare better against Jim Ace where Swampert does well and Sceptile finally finds dominance so overall we end our eight badge journey with Trico at 13, Torchic at 14. and Mudkip adds dominance 21. but what about the Elite Four? Blaziken shines against the dark type Sydney, while the others still bring some benefits. Phoebe's ghost represents an equal challenge for the titular three, but Glacia is a different story.

Swampert helps marginally. Sceptile turns completely. wiped out and Blaziken does a reverse Uno that has two super effective dab types with nothing but a shower of wall surf to get in its way. The last one is Drake, where Blaziken has a big disadvantage. Sceptile isn't great yet, but at least he can learn Dragon Claw while Swampert with Ice. Beam can decimate Shelgon Altaria Flygon and Salamence and only Emerald Kingdra poses a threat and now this is where there is a difference in the games as Ruby and Sapphire have a Steel type champion, in this case Blazikin gets all the points destroying Steven's.

The entire team, while Swampert and Sceptile bring a lot to the table, but not that much, regardless of the last fight, this clearly puts Mudkip on top with Torchic in second and Trico in last; However, in Emerald it's a bit of a different story, well, sort of. So Swamp Bird is pretty neutral in this fight, but he certainly brings some benefit to the table. Blaziken is expected to be horrible by not having any buffs for this fight and it's at this point where you probably expect me to say that Sceptile is awesome, you always hear it, yeah Sceptile.

It's okay during the main game, but there's a lot of water and it's great for the champion fight, but we start with the road lord who knows that Blizzard Sceptile will have a hard time shooting a Wailord. Next is the Tentacruel poison type with sludge bomb. you can't even hit this super effectively, the third Pokémon is the neutral ludicola, okay, sure next you have the wishing money, which is a free shot. I will give you that the fifth Pokémon, however, is Gyarados, which again you can't hit super effectively and lastly. Milotic knows Ice Beam, so sure he's better than Blaziken, which gives you one and a half kills, but at the end of the day it's still not enough to change our ranking system.

Swampert is way too dominant, he has great matchups combined with the fact that there are like four notable Pokémon that can actually hit him for super effective damage throughout the game anyway, next up being fire red and leaf green. We're not going to go over the entire game because there really aren't many changes, basically Venusaur becomes a bit. Even worse, since all the bugs it had were eliminated. Blastoise stays the same being super consistent and Charizard gets marginal buffs to make him a little better in the early game. I think it basically makes all of these Pokémon a little closer together, but in the end, Blastoise is still the most consistent choice.

Now moving on to Gen 4, we'll start with Roork Turtwick and Piplup. They're both off to a great start with moves that are four times effective against Geodude and Onyx and moves that are twice effective against Cranids, very easy. Four Points Chimchar, however, fights very hard with the fire and normal resistances of all three Pokémon if you can level it to 14, although the simulated hit can sweep, so in this case we'll give Chimchar a 4 out of 5. Without However, it manages to turn that around against Gardenia, as Monferno easily gets the five points by sweeping with Flame Wheel, at this point Primplop gets a three due to the super effective Peck which makes it neutral to Grass types. on the other team and similarly, Grotto can deal neutral damage. with bites while resisting overall above-average grazing vs.

Mayleen Grotto goes completely neutral even though Primplop resists Lucario's typing, he'll still have trouble with the pure power of Lucario's fighting moves, other than that he'll He does well and it is Monferno who advances here with super effectiveness. He stabs fire and fights Lucario, but since he needs an L against Menetite's psychic, he's still not a perfect sweep against Crasher Wake despite Quagsire and Floatzel's weakness in grass. Grotto alone does it quite well. Gyarados unfortunately prevents it from being a free fight. Primpop becomes quite neutral. The entire team and Monferno, on the other hand, are absolutely devastated by this entire team.

Now it is at this point in the game where we have the final stage evolutions and Fantina's ghost mods become one of the most annoying gems in the game. Your newly evolved Torterra gets the crazy operation earthquake and you face driftblim and Gengar, both of which are immune to the ground, plus both Pokémon resist that the grass didn't hit you neutrally. Empoleon does quite well as he hits neutrally with water while resisting his secondary poison types. and flying and simply due to Infernape's excellent stats, he does very well here despite losing to Driftwood. Then we have Byron, where the three of them just completely devastate, so Tara goes into Easy Sweep with Earthquake.

Empoleon gains super effective water moves and steel resistance, and Infernape goes super. effective fire or fighting moves, you know, just choose against Candace Infernape is again easy to sweep with fire and fighting moves. Napoleon has super effective steel moves, but does a little worse as Snover and Obama Snow have grass moves and Torterra immediately faints. a single ice move, but that poor performance has a pretty good follow-up against Volkner, where he is able to destroy three of his four Pokémon. Napoleon does horrible as he is destroyed by electricity and most of the team resists steel and despite not having super effective moves.

Infernape once again crushes here because she is insane, even his octary is no threat and from here we move on to the Elite Four. Torterra is torn apart by Aaron's bugs. Empoleon becomes almost neutral and Infernape hits hard with fire moves against Bertha. Torterra sweeps grass and pulling it also works very well against everything except Quakesire and Infernape can sweep pretty much anything with melee. As expected, Empoleon does the best against Flynn's firefighters, but not as much as Infernape's melee and flare Blitz combo pretty much ruins everything. Torterra definitely. performs worse with earth immune drifblim, but earthquake spam still holds up solid against everything else against the scary Lucian Torterra goes neutral and can take out bronxong with earthquake and Empoleon goes completely neutral while resisting lo psychic.

Infernape really struggles with his psychic weakness here, but he's capable. to hit brongzong and hit everything else neutrally and finally we have champion Cynthia Torterra who can shoot her gastrodon but unfortunately can't deal with her milotic's ice beam. She can also super effectively hit her Lucario with an Earthquake and then hit everything else neutrally. Empoleon is definitely doing well. worst here, but since it can learn Ice moves, it does very well against Rosa Raid and Garchomp, while Infernape destroys Lucario and Rosarade while becoming neutral to everything else besides the Gastronaut, making it once again in the best star kill for this fight and therefore adding everything up. it's a clear win for Infernape and we actually have a tie between Empoleon and Torterra now in Platinum you have some differences Torterra gets a boost in the Ghost Gym Empoleon gets a slight Nerf against Byron's Magneton but gives Tortera a stab in the ground 4X Infernape is weakened against Candace's metacham, but makes up for it with a buff against Volkner by having no artillery on Elite Caesar's four aeronauts in embellishment, which makes little difference.

Bertha's Gliscor Nerf Strattera, while Rhyperior gives Empoleon huge water effectiveness in Forex and Flint Lucian both changed. their teams but that doesn't really affect the outcome now finally Cynthia trades a gastrodon for Togekiss which is significant, this removes infernape's only weakness in that fight and makes Tortera a little less useful as it removes her free one shot, so overall Platinum grants Tortera has a roughly equal amount of buffs and nerfs, it makes Empoleon a bit better, but it also buffs Infernape which further increases its dominance in Gen 4. Now next we have Heart Gold and Soul Silver, one of the biggest additions to this generation is the intro. of the special physical divisions and I think this only serves to further cement how good the alligator is and jed2, you're dominating with a special surf on a physical attacker, but in Gen 4 your alligator can finally take advantage of those really good attacks, the Cascade Tag is devastating and you also get the physical move Ice Fang at just level 21.

You can combine it with the dark physical move Crunch at level 32 and all of that is enough to make it an absolute threat, as for the other two Typhlosion follows being great and Chikorita actually gets a little better now that generation 5 is one of the most challenging Pokémon games in the series and it should be noted that all three Pokémon fare quite a bit worse here, the three starters lose at the first gym , since Cilin always uses a super Pokémon. effective against you, but in the next gym, lenora's normals get hit super effectively by pignite's arm push, not surprising, but they slightly outclass servine and do what, but pygnite also destroys berg's bugs with fire.

Dua performs quite well as he is good against dweble and weak to lebani and then servine does horrible with 4X resistances to Grass and moves on to elise's conference gym. Pignite is the only thing that has a chance here and moga's aerial Ace still ruins it, but he can take on Zeb stryka as he flies on fire into the grass and Electric obviously rips up the water now against Clay's ground types, all three get moves super effective against two members of his team, however, Pigtight performs worse overall as he loses against Palpato's flying type. Skyla easily destroys both Servine and Pignite with super effective flying moves and duo rates. turning neutral decently throughout the fight, Bryson's ice men are a clean sweep for embor with fire moves, while Samurott resists ice and turns neutral to the team.

Superior on the other hand is completely destroyed by ice, now finally against Drayden and the iris dragons, embor has neutral fighting moves. but it's actually Samurai who runs Miles Ahead since he can learn Blizzard, so Samrock gets all the points. Ember does well and Superior, as always, gets destroyed, so at the end of the gyms we have Samurott in the lead with three points for 22. Ember takes second place with 19 and miles from Superior Falls, they got a total of four points and moved on to the Elite Four right on the doorstep with embor. Sean tall's ghost team is completely immune to fighting and two members also resist fire, so embor isn't very useful here.

Superior is excellent against Jellison and Golurk with grass, but is destroyed by Chandelier and Samurai gets a super effective two against the most mod.team pressurer, Chandelure. Now Ember makes up for his poor performance below with a super effective fight against Grimsley's entire dark team, while Samrat and Superior, both Neptunes, go neutral by providing pretty big overall buffs. Both Empor and Superior are destroyed by Caitlyn's psychics due to Embor's psychic weakness and his stealthy flying type. Samurai on the other hand performs quite well against Marshall's fighters, all three end up completely neutral now in the final fight against Termina Superior is very useful for drawing water Rock paracosta and zorark, however you have to be careful with Russia and vanilla archeops Samurott is useful against archeops and Zorark and really only fights Zekrom, while Emb is useful against Vanillux Zorark and Click. clang regarding this Superior being able to find a free shot on Seismitoad Samurai really only provides a marginal benefit in getting a blizzard for hydreigon, while embor is useful against Buffalo and hydrigun and basically makes Bisharp free so clearly with everything that said Superior is out of reach. race for a mile, the real question is who is better between embor and Samurott and according to a ranking system, Samurai actually beats mbor only by three points, while embor is good at putting out fires, it's great, there are no other Pokémon either of good water in this generation. so I feel like Samurott is overall the better choice now in Black and White 2, there are really only minor differences, but given how close he was between Sam Rod and Embor, it could actually make a difference.

The first gem is purely normal, but not that. change the outcome, the addition of a poison gem should keep things neutral, but since Lenora's Whirlipede is bugged when writing pygnite's super effective fire moves, it keeps it at three points, while changing Whirlipede to swadlune at Berg's team of errors is enough to reduce Samrat's score to one. due to Grass typing, adding Fluffy on Elise's team or sand slash on Clay's team doesn't really make a difference and since Embor outspeeds Skarmory, adding that on Skyla's team definitely helps a bit, although the most significant change is removing the Ice Jim and adding an aquatic gym and this makes Embor go from two to zero and there are not many changes in Elite Four now in Black and White 2, the champion is Iris with dragons, so Samrat's ability to use ice moves definitely helps a lot. here and because of that he is able to comfortably maintain his place as the best starter for Generation 5.

Now moving on to generation 6. For those of you who don't know, Chespin is really bad in some aspects, possibly being worse than Chikorita like literally effective against six of the 44 major Pokémon you'll face the game's main fights have no stab fighting moves until level 36 and even then, the only really good move is Brick Break, you have a four times weakness to flying, There's an evil gang made up of fire types that we don't need to look at. Chespin, so the real fight is between Greninja and Delphox, which we can get through quickly, so Delphox has a relatively decent special attack speed and special defense, but lacks defensive HP.

You also do not have access to your psychic type until your final evolution, which means that you. Until then we're just stuck shooting stabs and the biggest problem with Delphox is the tight matchups, even the teams it's decent against always seem to have a Pokémon that completely blocks it like, oh, Viola's bug team, oh, wait, nevermind, there's a surskin. I have Olympia's slow King and Meowstic's Chandelure, Malva, Wickstrom's Provo pass, Drasna's drag kelp, there are so many Pokémon that it makes Delphox infuriatingly average, Greninja on the other hand, as a water type, gets matchups significantly more favorable, plus it has better speed and most importantly has a great move set water pulse at 14 Sneak Shadow at 23 three priority stab water shuriken at 36 also had access to ice moves through TM and although the only team that really dominates throughout the game are the olympia psychics and mava fire teams, those are tough fights so it's very useful, it's also neutral to almost every other gym other than grass.

If I'm honest, I don't really like Gen 6 and also this video is getting really long so since it's so obvious I don't think there is one. It can be argued that Greninja is not the best Gen 6 starter, so we can leave it there now, moving on to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. We had very few changes to the oral gyms, four compared to the original Ruby and Sapphire. There is a new one. Moon instead of Slugma in Flannery's team's celius glacias or change for frost last Drake uses a Kingdra instead of Shelgon as an emerald Stevens Metagross gets a bagel evolution, but it's still a Metagross and although none of these really change the rankings, that last point should be I noticed, uh, that's Mega Evolutions.

Mega Evolutions make a big difference here, as all three starters get their new mega forms now. Mega sceptile's Dragon type is really cool, but it mainly just helps with Drake, but you know at the same time it also weakens you. Drake, I think Mega Blaziken in particular is awesome with 160 base attack and 130 specials, plus it gets the ability speed boost which is just broken, but you also have to remember that these things are only useful for the last two gems and Elite Four . Blaziken's weak-type matchups for most of the game. I think it's safe to say that Swampert still reigns supreme here, now moving into Generation 7, we'll continue to speed things up here.

All three starters in this game are solid options, but there is such a clear, top runner like incineroar is great with Flare Blitz and the darker Lariat, but suffers by far the worst type matchups in this game. he decidueye becomes very strong ghostwriting more stab. Spirit shackle. She also gets the best speed stat out of these three, which is I'm not saying much, but honestly, Fairy-type Marina just grabs the oak tree, but going through all the Pokémon you face throughout the island trials in Elite Four primarina , you lose to three Pokémon. I said it in another video, but that's absurd, that's Swampert. levels of roto you have a lurantis a vica ray and a crowbat and more than that primarina is effective against more than 50 Pokémon that you will face in the game after the move said that it does as well as decidueye and incineroar with access to moonblast sparkling Aura surf priority stab the ice beam aquajet and while decidueye is good i don't think there's an argument to say primarina isn't the dominant alola starter but that changes at all going into ultra sun and moon well there are some differences in trials instead of undecided you face a spider LOL and Marowak replaces salazzle and toga midaru replaces vikavolt, while for the Elite Four you face Molina's steel team instead of Hollis Fighters and to be fair that really boosted the effectiveness of sinaror and prevents decidueye Olivia from trading for our Maldo cradely and gigolith, which doesn't really change things.

The new Acerola Bennett makes Primarina only neutral, but Braviary and Halucha make it a bit more useful against Kahili. Against how Primarina still easily takes first place being super effective against four members. of the team while turning neutral to two, so overall sun and moon improve slightly, incineroar slightly reduces decidueye and primarina is still on top now, then come on, which is pretty much the same as red and the original blue, as if there were some minor ones. changes change the star you for a side spring change Pikachu for a Magnemite Koga change cough and wheeze for Golbat and venomoth the game is literally made for four year olds, although the first change that really makes a difference is that Sabrina changes to Kadabra and venomoth for Slowbro and Jinx, since Charizard is weak to Slowbro, but since it's good against Jinx, it doesn't really change much here.

Blaine trades some Pokémon, but also gets ruined. Giovanni uses one right instead of two rhyhorns. Agatha trades Haunter for Landspring. Sidra and Charizard instead of two Dragonair and those are not really changes that make a big difference, really the main difference in these games is in the rival fights where everything has changed, besides Pidgeot, Blastoise defeats Marowak and Rapidash becomes neutral before Slowbro and his elder. The obstacle is Jolteon Charizard Rex Felplum becomes neutral to Rapidash while losing to Slowbro marawack game Jolteon Venusaur defeats Marowak becomes neutral to Felplum and Slowbro resists Jolteon and is defeated by Rapidash, so while Venusaur definitely gets a boost here, I just don't think That's enough again, I think come on, it'll probably make all the beginners a little more balanced with each other, but I think even though you know the TM changes and stuff, Blastoise will still reign supreme. supreme here, now we have generation 8 with sword and shield.

Sport Bunny starts off with an immediate lead against Milo's Grass Gym, arguably the biggest fight since Gen 8 has this sort of triangle of the first three gyms. Score Bunny gets the best case scenario as grass comes first, still decently useful against NASA due to Battleship's fighting weakness, then goes neutral against Gruky Kabu, also gets decent matchups, being neutral against grass and then super effective against water, and when you get to Kabu you will have other options, you will feel that Sabo is the one who really takes the brunt. the stick is only strong against the third gym and moving forward almost works better against BS fighters with the super effective double kick on Pangoro, but if you have Shield then they are almost even because it is a rabbit from the Ghost Gym it has fairy resistance , so it actually destroys Opal's fairies and if you're in Sword it becomes a bit neutral to Gordy's rockmans and in Shield it completely destroys Melanie's ice team, then it becomes super effective fighting two monsters both on team Pierce like on Rehan's Dragons despite being weak to the ground moves of Flygon and Santa conda overall italian and realaboom are really good pokemon but cinderace is definitely taking the lead here how about the Champions Cup ?

Since cinderace bounces, it is effective against Marnie's lipard, Toxicroak Scrappy, and more folded Pika centers will be Corva Knight Snorlax and rilla. Boom beats him for a while, Leon's Aegis slash and Mr rhyme Thriller boom on the other hand can only handily beat the hops team which puts him out of the race and intellion is pretty neutral against everyone in this fight but gets a good tight match against the champion, since you know, Leon has a Charizard, now the Italian has a very good special attack of 125, speed of 120 which surpasses Cinderaces, speed of 116 and 119. I think the main reason why you see that you send a dash gained here is because of the moves, Intellion has snipeshot with 80. base power, while Cinder Ace has pyrobot with 120 base damage, so you combine that with everything with only one type of stab and generally , worst performance in all gyms.

We can all agree that Cinderace moves forward as Galler's strongest starter and now moves up to shiny diamond. and Shining Pearl, all gym leaders, Elite Four members and champion teams are still exactly the same, some level differences, there are some differences in learning moves, but it's the same and I think that's why it's safe to say it's the same result, the only one. The difference in this game is the fairy type and the only notable Pokémon you fight with the fairy type is Elite Four Lucian's Mr Mime, but Mr Mime was already super effective against Incineroar, so all this does is giving Empoleon farrier resistance, so with that said, Infernape is still king. generation 4. and now ladies and gentlemen let's finally talk about generation 9. now we have a full video breaking this down if you want to see it, but I'll give you the long and the short line.

Springgetito is a really consistent sweeper. his final form is fast and is able to crit everything ignoring any type of defensive buffs that Pokémon get. It's really nice. The veil is almost really good. He feels like the all-rounder of this game. His signature move increases speed, something I never encounter. as useful as I want him to be and while he's really good I think he's the worst of the three starters and lastly you have Skeleturch who is not only the best starter in this game but possibly the best starter of them all the times. uses the movement torch song, increases her special attack stat by one, destroys six of the eight gym leaders, other than Rika, I don't know, it's a solo, the champion, it's just another game where there is no debate about which is the best starter as a skeleton is that dominant and yes, there it isYou have, the best starter in every main Pokémon game.

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